If you are here,
you are not on LinkedIn.

Step 1: Bookmark this page and leave it open as a standby tab—for emergency hopping.

Step 2: When symptoms of professional networking fatigue* hit, click this bookmark or jump to the open tab—for a much-needed time out.

Step 3: Consider what you might do with this time out. [see buttons above ⤴].

*Which may include [but are not limited to]:
- Comparison anxiety, comment analysis, post perfectionism [& content curation], scroll paralysis, connection hoarding, message hesitation, algorithm decoding, hashtag indecision, response reluctance, profile tweaking, notification checking, post timing — and the occasional emoji reaction overthinking.

**If you're here during awards season, symptoms may also include:
- Shortlist refreshing, Lions Live buffering, timeline scrolling, rereading your own entry one more time, wondering if the idea was too safe, wondering if it was too weird, wondering if the case study film did it justice, wondering if the jury got it, wondering if you explained it well enough, wanting the people who worked on it with you to get something back for what they put in, the very specific silence of waiting, the difficulty of focusing on anything else, the urge to check even when you just checked, and the hope you've been quietly carrying since the day you submitted.